Pat Helland has 25 years of experience in the software industry and has been an architect at Microsoft since 1994. He has worked for more than 20 years in database, transaction processing, distributed systems, as well as fault tolerant and scalable systems. Pat worked at Tandem Computers designed TMF (Transaction Monitoring Facility). He was one of the founders of the team that implemented and shipped Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS), now COM . Pat has recently focused his thinking on loosely coupled application environments. Pat can be reached at phelland@microsoft.com.
He left Microsoft on Mar/05 to Amazon.
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